EXPORT OF GOLD FORBIDDEN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 9

EXPORT OF GOLD FORBIDDEN

GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF

ALL BANKS

LONDON, October 4.

The President of Spain (Senor Azana) has issued a decree placing an embargo on the export of gold and silver, imposing Government control on all ’ banks, and requiring citizens to surrender within a week all gold, foreign bonds and currency in their possession.

SPANISH GOVERNMENT

LEGITIMACY DEFENDED AT GENEVA

(■xiriaa official wikelsm.)

RUGBY, October 3

The assembly of the League of Nations was engaged on a general discussion on the secretary-general’s report when the head of the Spanish delegation, Senor Ossorio y Gallardo, intervened in the debate to make a solemn declaration in defence of the legitimacy of the Spanish Government.

WOUNDED NEW ZEALANDER

PARENTS LIVE AT • EASTBOURNE

(PRESS , ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

WELLINGTON, October 5,

The last news his parents had of their son, Mr Eric N. Griffiths, who, according to a recent cable mesasge, was wounded in an aerial fight with Spanish rebel aeroplanes, was that he had entered the British army. He had his twenty-first birthday in the Antarctic, and his twenty-third in Spain. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W. Griffiths, of Eastbourne. The first intimation of his son’s adventure came as a surprise to Mr Griffiths. He was riding in the Eastbourne bus, and after reading the newspaper account of the Spanish war passed the paper to a companion. “Is this your son who has been wounded in Spain?” the reader asked. “I don’t think so,” said Mr Griffiths, who had overlooked the message concerning his son. Then he looked, and found that it was his son.